Baseline Evaluation

How do I obtain the baseline evaluation code?

You must register and agree the data licence. If you already have access to HumanEva datasets you can use your existing login and password to download the baseline evaluation code.

HumanEva-I Data

How do I obtain the HumanEva-I dataset?

You must register and agree the data licence.

What can HumanEva-I dataset be used for?

To encourage a common venue for reporting the results on the data, we allow full
access to the data to researchers that plan to participate
in NIPS 2006
Workshop and/or in the following the workshop special
issue of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
devoted to the subject. All uses beyond these venues are
currently disallowed. Once the special issue of the IJCV is
in press, we will allow full and unrestricted use of the
data to the research community.

Can the HumanEva-I dataset be used for commercial use?

What does "I" in the HumanEva-I stands for?

"I" stands for the first incarnation of this dataset. Our hope is that this
dataset will evolve in the future to be more diverse.

Do I need to use the supplied data for training or validation?

No. You are free to use your own data if you like. Learning from the supplied data however will likely provide
viable priors on the motions and the appearance of the subjects in the dataset.

There is a lot of test data, do I need to run on all of it?

We realize that there is a lot of test data and current state of the art algorithms are still relatively slow to require everyone
to run on all the data. While we encourage the groups to run on as much data as possible, we are currently in the process
of compiling a priority list for the test data. This will ensure that all participant are able to run on at least the
same sub-set of the test data.

HumanEva-II Data

What are the differences between HumanEva-I and HumanEva-II?

Please see the table bellow.

HumanEva-I

HumanEva-II

Synchronization

Software

Hardware

Number of video cameras

7

4

Types of video cameras

3 color + 4 grayscale

4 color

Number of motion capture cameras

6

8

Types of data

Training, Validation, Testing

Testing

Conventions

Why did you use XviD codec for videos?

Uncompressed data that we collected was ~500 GB.
Making that data available over the web given the current bandwidth limitations seemed unreasonable.
XviD codec provided us with a reasonable compression without any visible artifacts.
We ensured the options we used for compression resulted in the highest quality video possible.
XviD codec is also freely available, and has libraries for C/C++.

What are the units used in the code?

Calibration is done in (mm) with the origin on the floor and roughly in the center of the capture space.
The 3D error in pose is computed in (mm) as well. The 2D pose error is computed in (pixels) for convenience.